Windows 8 Httpclient basic authentcation - dotnet-httpclient

Question

I am new to this forum.
I am trying to do Basic authentication using Httclient for my Windows app.
var handler2 = new HttpClientHandler
{
Credentials = new NetworkCredential(username, password)
};
var httpClient2 = new HttpClient(handler2);
httpClient2.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("user-Agent", "authentication.cs");
var response2 = httpClient.GetAsync(uri);
I have 2 questions:
I need to add header content type and user-agent. Dont know how to add them. Could someone help me out.
In response i am getting null values. Any idea why?
Regards,
TM

Answer 1

You can add the user agent header by doing
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue("authentication.cs"));
You can't add Content-Type to the default request headers because you can only set Content-Type when you are sending some Content using a PUT or a POST.
I'm guessing you want to set the Accept header like this:
client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("text/html"));
Update: Without my own account, this is as far as I can go.
public sealed partial class MainPage : Page
{
private readonly HttpClient _httpClient = new HttpClient();
public MainPage()
{
this.InitializeComponent();
InitHttpClient();
}
private void InitHttpClient() {
var username = "youremail#somewhere.com";
var password = "yourharvestpassword";
String authparam = System.Convert.ToBase64String(System.Text.Encoding.UTF8.GetBytes(username + ":" + password));
_httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Authorization = new AuthenticationHeaderValue("Basic", authparam);
_httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.Accept.Add(new MediaTypeWithQualityHeaderValue("application/xml"));
_httpClient.DefaultRequestHeaders.UserAgent.Add(new ProductInfoHeaderValue("MyHarvestClient", "1.0"));
}
/// <summary>
/// Invoked when this page is about to be displayed in a Frame.
/// </summary>
/// <param name="e">Event data that describes how this page was reached. The Parameter
/// property is typically used to configure the page.</param>
protected override void OnNavigatedTo(NavigationEventArgs e) {
_httpClient.GetAsync("https://yoursubdomain.harvestapp.com/projects")
.ContinueWith(t => HandleResponse(t.Result));
}
private void HandleResponse(HttpResponseMessage response) {
response.EnsureSuccessStatusCode();
var contentString = response.Content.ReadAsStringAsync().Result;
var contentXML = XDocument.Parse(contentString);
}
}